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User talk:Arbitrarily0/Archive/2014
DYK nomHi Arbitrarily0. Thanks for your comments at Template:Did you know nominations/Legal education in Alaska. I revised the article[1] based on your comments to be more in line with the language of the source. I also added an ALT2 which is in the article and (I believe) supported by footnote 182 in this source. -- Jreferee (talk) 15:22, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Wisely articleArbitrarily0, I think the Wisely article is about ready to go. It is still in my sandbox for now. I'd love if you could look to make sure it is not to much like an advertisement or too promotional. Thanks! Michael Barera (talk) 02:20, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Update: I've moved the article to the mainspace and nominated it at DYK. Due to your contributions to the article while it was still in my sandbox, which I greatly appreciate, I have listed you as "Author 2" on the nomination page. If you disagree with this decision, feel free to remove your name from the nomination. I just felt that adding your name was the best way to acknowledge your contributions to the article. Thanks again for all your help, and take care! Michael Barera (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC) DYK for Mathew Ahmann
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 20 January 2014 (UTC) questions about journalism wiki projectHello, I am a new Wikipeida user and I noticed that you are apart of the journalism wiki Project. I recently joined this project and I was wondering what would be the best way for me to contribute to this project as I will be working on it for class ? thanks Jsomani (talk) 20:51, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Re talk page commentI am making more of these for a knot guide I'm putting together elsewhere, though they're not animated. What do you have in mind? P.S. I've actually been editing Wikipedia longer than you have, though I'm not nearly as prolific. 96.61.58.122 (talk) 20:51, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Restarting Highlight Industries PageHello Arbitrarily0, I know there was a discussion a couple of years ago regarding Highlight Industries' page on Wikipedia, resulting in deletion. The company would like to revisit having a page. I have been compiling information and articles on Highlight and building an outline for a potential article/page, and upon creating an account and attempting to start an article I was asked to contact you about revisiting this idea. I'd love to get your input on the matter, and figure out what steps I need to take next for submitting information, etc. Thanks for your time! Karebear7 (talk) 15:56, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Personal wikiTo be honest, I'm surprised anyone looks at my user page. My edits of late are generally inconsequential. My personal wiki began on Linux using the MySQL database. It was probably Fedora Core back then. This is a standard configuration and there are many online tutorials that will walk you through the process. Eventually I set up my own home network server under FreeBSD (using the ZFS file system) and switched my wiki to use the PostgreSQL database, which runs a bit again the grain. This is all great technology, but it requires fairly significant chops. I don't recommend my current configuration to non-professionals. There are also options just to have your wiki hosted in the cloud, or to use an existing cloud service such as Evernote (I've never used this myself0. The good thing with MediaWiki is that once you get it set up, you can go years without doing much maintenance. However, there are many bits and pieces to mess with during installation if you want all the usual features (image uploads, thumbnails, etc.) The other side is that an empty wiki can become highly disorganized very quickly. There's a knack to creating the appropriate page names such that you can naturally find them again, and so that your notes cleave on natural boundaries. I created a template called "up" which I put at the top of many pages to give my wiki some hierarchical structure. For example, I've recently taken a shine to freethinking, by which I mean the philosophical root system I've long taken for granted. It's hard to keep all the philosophers and eras organized in my head, so I have many of them grouped under an umbrella page named Age of Enlightenment. This page itself doesn't mean anything to me, but having it there prevents me from inadvertently covering the same material in pages with subtly different names. Wikipedia is less hierarchical and makes more use of categories for this kind of thing. But your own mind is not like that, trust me. You need at least a few eyeballs stacked into a pyramid to keep your coverage straight. Creating pages with the names of people is A Good Thing. People are fixed reference points. Ideas are not. For example, create a page called The problem with hierarchy is that it taps on the taxonomic reflex arc until the hierarchy starts to seem more important than the actual content (we've all experienced this on committees). But really, with a wiki the main thing is just to keep accumulating more asphalt (primary pages) and from time to time you paint some coloured lines and lane markers to help maintain your bearings. This all works for me because I'm fundamentally a lateral thinker. One of the stated goals of Getting Things Done is to organize yourself so that you never have to think the same thought twice. For me, this is exactly backwards. My wiki exists so that I can think the same thoughts over and over and over again, but spaced out in time and coming at it each time from a different direction. So you can see that I use my wiki primary to achieve spaced repetition. It's a fairly heavy commitment where I amass all my little ideas over the long term. I also make heavy use of a voice recorder when there are too many ideas coming at me too fast to stitch into my wiki. Sometimes I'll just put a link in my wiki to a voice recorder file stored elsewhere on my server. Other times I'll go back and explode the recording into all the separate tendrils. That covers two or three sides of the elephant. If you wish to refine your question, ping me again on my user page. — MaxEnt 23:21, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Arbitrarily0. Pls could you to correct your map of the 37th Chess Olympiad 2006 - Austria did take part in both the open and women's division (77th and 58th place, respectively). --KnightMove (talk) 18:41, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Thank you (Michigan Wikipedians)Thank you for your note about the Michigan Wikipedians. I'm no longer in Ann Arbor, but maybe I'll still be able to attend an event someday. And I am interested in what the group does. Best wishes! - CocoaZen (talk) 19:03, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
Restoring Luc Courchesne articleSome 5 years ago I added a paragraph to an existing article about Montréal videographer Luc Courchesne on English Wikipedia. I also added more or less the same content on a similar page on the French counterpart of Wikipedia at [2]. A few months later I was shocked to discover that someone had deleted the English version of the article for the following reason: "Article about a real person, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject". I could argue that the person in question was deemed sufficiently important to have had an article written about him before I came along, and he deserved even more recognition after I had added a paragraph that mentioned that he had captured on video a very significant piece of history on the morning of September 11, 2001, something almost equivalent to the Zapruder video of the JFK assassination. Was it precisely because of the sensitive matter of 9/11 that the article was deleted? I'll probably never know for sure but I strongly suspect it. Anyway, I later discovered that for some reason you took it upon yourself to restore the article on 17 May 2010, as can be seen here: [3]. It says that "41 revisions restored" but I can't locate the original article. Was your restoration attempt unsuccessful, and if so why? Oclupak (talk) 22:24, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
Request for granting rollback rightsThrough this I would like to request you for granting me rollback right for my username. I will use this right to fight obvious vandalism! I am appealing here since in past I had faced several vandalism even on my talk page and userpage!. If possible please grant me this right. Thank you! CutestPenguin • Talk 15:01, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Aagadu - protection requiredadmin assistance is needed. Lot of disruption and vandalism is going on Aagadu. Please protect the article for 24 hrs Bewakoofian (talk) 19:51, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Vilayet of the ArchipelagoThe title Vilayet of the Archipelago (moved on Aug 11, 2011) seems rather peculiar.It is certainly non-Turkish and I doubt if the western sources used that name. Is it really sourced or is it a product of imputation ? Thanks Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 19:08, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
Userfication RequestsI would like to have these articles userfied:
I'll let you know when I find more articles that I'd like userfied, please. 2005-Fan (talk) 18:22, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Userfication Request 2: Please Reply :)Sorry to bother you again, but I found some more pages (mostly DK-related) that would be good for userfication:
It took me effort to track these down. And please reply, as I was waiting for eight days for one. 2005-Fan (talk) 20:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
That should do it for now. My email's open for replies. :) 2005-Fan (talk) 00:41, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Oh, pardon me but I realized that I already requested Gruntilda's Lair as an article. Oh well. You may find some incomplete Wikipedia revisions of articles on the Wayback Machine to save time in finding out if it's worth restoring. 2005-Fan (talk) 02:05, 7 December 2014 (UTC) Page revertedHello, I have searched in vain for the good path to get administrator’s help for the following issue and so I decided to send this request to some including you. I have considerably expanded the article Guerrilla filmmaking and took care in referencing it as far as I could (over 90 links to trustful sources). I am an experienced editor of Wikipedia. For my surprise, the article was reverted by user CIRT to a preceding stub version mainly consisting of a very narrow list of films. Many important contents were removed. Self promotional vandalism seems to be the reason of such intervention, sustained by acute threats. I do not intend to respond with helpless and inconsequent arguments and the time I have to dedicate to Wikipedia is quite limited. I’d be happy if you could pay some attention to this occurrence and let you decide whatever you think is reasonable. My best, Tertulius (User talk:Tertulius) 04,29, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Nomination of Scott Pickens for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Scott Pickens is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Pickens until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 12:47, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
Evolution Day (2011 AfD)Back in 2011 you commented on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evolution Day: "Although this article has been with us since 2005, I had great difficulty finding sources that would verify that this is indeed a recognized 'day'." After doing a recent web search, I found evidence that the term had been used at least as early as 1996, in TES (magazine): [4] If this is a good enough source that would have gotten you to vote "Keep" had we known of it at the time, would you mind putting a comment to that effect on User_talk:Postdlf#Evolution_Day? Thanks! -- Limulus (talk) 09:43, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
Invitation to discussionHi Arbitrarilyo! I saw you worked on "List of most popular websites", so I'd like to ask you to join the discussion about implementation of the bot which would display direct visits number to each particular site in the web-sites info box next to alexa ranking index. Would you please advance your idea on my suggestion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_website. (Implementation of web measurement bot in website infobox) Thank you Noamsp (talk) 15:20, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
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